Chapter 573: Chapter 233: You Are My Only Family Now
"Cyan Lotus, I’ll hold them back, you must go quickly!"
"Master, this disciple wishes to fight to the death alongside you!"
"Child, it’s been five hundred years, Cyan Lotus Sect has finally awaited you, you cannot die."
"Master!!"
Qiu Zhihe abruptly opened her eyes, her forehead covered in cold sweat, her chest heaving incessantly.
It had been a long time since she last dreamed of that day on Celestial Ridge Mountain.
At that time, she and her master were besieged by the experts of the Three Great Sects.
Her master intended to sacrifice himself to let her escape, but she wanted to fight the Three Great Sects to the death, to avenge her fallen fellow disciples.
Back then, Xia Qinglian was proud and aloof, killing countless enemies, how could she ever think of running away?
But unexpectedly, the Three Great Sects had prepared extremely well that day, the Commanding Disciples maintained the Grand Array on the periphery, continually weakening her and her master’s spiritual power.
At the center were the leaders, elders, Ye Xiyue, and Su Hongling of the Three Great Sects taking turns to attack.
She had an astounding combat power but had no way to exert it.
Eventually, she exhausted her spiritual power, and in the end, her master had to sacrifice himself to help her feign death and escape.
Before her master died, he told her, "Child, never forget who you are, as long as you live, the Cyan Lotus Sect lives!"
On that day, the cold and unparalleled Demon Sect Saintess Xia Qinglian died, leaving only Qiu Zhihe, willing to debase herself for revenge.
Fortunately, she met Qin Gengyun.
She never thought there would come a day when she could live such a happy and peaceful life.
At some point, she began to change gradually.
No longer so cold and ruthless, taking lives at a whim, she could even carry a basket and chat and laugh with other female cultivators while buying vegetables and talking about trivial matters.
She didn’t know why she had changed like this.
But she liked it very much.
This kind of life, she wished it could last forever...
"Husband?"
Qiu Zhihe snapped back to reality, finally realizing that Qin Gengyun was no longer in bed.
She suddenly sat up, and beside her, the voice of the Celestial Phoenix Maiden sounded:
"He’s gone out."
"Gone out?"
Qiu Zhihe flickered in movement and was already in front of the Celestial Phoenix Maiden, looking at her coldly:
"Where did he go?"
The Celestial Phoenix Maiden was startled and jumped up, retorting with her neck straight:
"You slept so deeply, you didn’t even know when your man left, why take it out on me?"
In an instant, it became chilling around, and despite her Nascent Soul Realm cultivation, she was trembling. The Celestial Phoenix Maiden immediately became meek, whiningly saying:
"He went to catch that residual soul."
"What?!" Qiu Zhihe glared at the Celestial Phoenix Maiden: "Why didn’t you stop him?"
The Celestial Phoenix Maiden pouted, "I’m just a bird, how could I stop him?"
Qiu Zhihe looked out the window, the night was deep and gloomy, "I could have sworn it was dawn before I fell asleep, why hasn’t it gotten light?"
The Celestial Phoenix Maiden said, "You slept for a day, it’s already the second night now."
Qiu Zhihe swiftly dashed out of the house, at the moment, it was deep at night, everything was silent.
Qiu Zhihe’s face was ashen, her body rose out of nowhere, and with her as the center, snow fell across several miles, the snowflakes scattered on the ground, revealing a trail of footprints.
Those were left by Qin Gengyun when he left.
This was another wonderful use of Profound Ice, able to track people with familiar spiritual power within ten miles.
Qiu Zhihe’s beautiful eyes abruptly opened, flying swiftly along that line of footprints.
"Why is it snowing?"
Xu Caihe and Zhou Ling’Er carried an Everlasting Lamp, walking on the road, curiously looking up at the sky.
It seemed the ghost only attacked male disciples, so Su Xin had arranged for female disciples to be on duty at night, tonight it was Xu Caihe and Zhou Ling’Er’s turn.
Seeing the sudden snow, they were both somewhat stunned.
Suddenly, a blurry figure brushed past in front of them, startling the two into screaming:
"Ah! It’s the ghost!"
"Don’t kill us!"
They brandished various magical artifacts, only to see the blurry figure flicker past directly, disappearing without a trace.
Xu Caihe blankly said, "Ling’Er, was that... a person just now?"
Zhou Ling’Er, not yet recovered from her fright, patted her chest, "It seemed to be... Junior Sister Ruo."
"How could Junior Sister Ruo be so fast? That body technique seems even better than Senior Sister Ye and the others."
"No wonder Senior Brother He likes her so much, maybe only she can handle Senior Brother He."
Qiu Zhihe flew ahead all the way, finally finding Qin Gengyun, who was sitting alone in a clearing in the forest, raising his hand in surprise at the sky.
"Why is it snowing?"
In the distance, Liu Su and Mo Xiaolan were hiding on one side, Mo Xiaolan was also full of amazement, while Liu Su’s face was stiff, slowly turning her head, and waving at the icy-looking Qiu Zhihe:
"Miss, you’re awake? Hehe."
Qiu Zhihe glanced once at Qin Gengyun in the distance, then slowly descended, stepping barefoot onto the snowy ground.
However, before her feet could touch the snow, it disappeared, as she walked towards Liu Su and Mo Xiaolan, each step causing the surrounding snow to vanish.
By the time she reached the two, all the snow within several miles had disappeared without a trace.
Mo Xiaolan finally understood, looking at Qiu Zhihe with eyes full of shock: "So this snow is... Sister Qiu’s doing..."
She always knew her cultivation could not match Qiu Zhihe’s.
But exactly how vast the gap was, she wasn’t clear.
Because she had never seen Qiu Zhihe go all out.
Even Qin Gengyun probably hadn’t seen it.
Now upon seeing the other casually induce a supernatural phenomenon, she finally understood just how vast the gulf was between her and Qiu Zhihe.
It wasn’t about being a few levels apart in cultivation, but a significant gap in understanding the path of cultivation and the application of techniques.
Indeed, Qin Gengyun being with her was the best outcome.
"Oh dear!"
Mo Xiaolan was lost in thought, only to see Liu Su being grabbed by the ear by Qiu Zhihe, Liu Su quickly called out to Qin Gengyun:
"Young master, save me!"
Qin Gengyun also spotted Qiu Zhihe, had to run over, scratching his head awkwardly as he called softly:
"My wife."
Qiu Zhihe looked coldly at him, suddenly, a crystal-clear teardrop burst from her beautiful eyes.
Liu Su and Mo Xiaolan were dumbfounded.
Qin Gengyun panicked, fumblingly raising his hand to wipe her tears, explaining repeatedly:
"My wife, listen to me, two junior brothers died again in the early morning today, though the Zhenyang Sect is abhorrent, these ordinary disciples are innocent. If this residual soul is really someone you know, I don’t want it to continue its slaughter, so I intended to ambush it here and catch it."
Qiu Zhihe’s tears flowed again, her cold gaze like a breached dam:
"You promised me not to act recklessly!"
Master Nalan Yan treated her like both a master and mother, Senior Sister Chun Hongtang cared for her like a real sister, from before, Master and Senior Sister were her closest family.
But Master and Senior Sister were gone, and she barely managed to meet Qin Gengyun, her husband was her only family now.
If her husband were to leave too...
Perhaps it was affected by the dream just now, Qiu Zhihe couldn’t stop her tears, Liu Su had handed Qin Gengyun three handkerchiefs, but still couldn’t dry her face.
Mo Xiaolan was dumbfounded, pulling Liu Su aside: "What’s happening to Sister Qiu?"
"I don’t know, boo hoo..." Liu Su’s eyes were also red:
"Miss is crying, I feel like crying too, boo hoo hoo."
Mo Xiaolan: "..."
"What is that?"
Liu Su cried while pointing into the distance.
In the night sky, a vague white shadow floated over, wavering.
